Re: kernfs/rtc: circular dependency between kernfs and ops_lock

[Alessandro Zummo]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 13:07:10 +0200
Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It doesn't really matter where it is unregistered. device_unregister() will 
> (somewhere down it's callchain) take the kernfs lock, hence it must be 
> callled with the rtc mutex being held.

 Maybe device_remove_attrs could be called in the rtc base class,
 before the device removal?

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 Best regards,

 Alessandro Zummo,
  Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy

  http://www.towertech.it

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